Enriched classics series

Narrates the hatred of petty officer Claggart for Billy, a handsome Spanish sailor. Billy strikes and kills Claggart, and is condemned by Captain Vere even though the latter senses Billy's spiritual innocence.

The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.

Sophocles' play of a king prophesied to kill his father and marry his mother is here presented in a translation designed to be used on stage.